Monitor 1 (15 Inch Flat CRT) Tuner IRC Winamp Monitor 2 (15 Inch CRT) NotePad Smart FTP Command Prompt Second Tuner Windows Explorer Monitor 3 (17 Inch CRT) DreamWeaver FF Desktop Icons NotePad Various Other Programs (word, excel, etc) Monitor 4 (19 Inch Flat CRT) OutPut (FF, IE, Opera) Movies DreamWeaver AutoDesk Inventor Various Other Programs Monitor 5 (15 Inch CRT) Network Monitor IRC Flash Chats VNC Monitors 1-4 are connected to one PC, and Monitor 5 is on another PC.
Left 17" - Main for games / browsing or whatever I'm working on at the time. Right 17" - Winamp / IRC / Video playback / Email
Main screen is 19" and another monitor is 20" widescreen. The 20" is only for the winamp and messenger and the 19" shows all the rest. Ou.. and the 20" is also my used as a TV
Work ----- Left: iexplore Firefox explorer Winamp (shaded) Navicat (database) Outlook Putty WinSCP Right: TTP (workflow software) Zend Studio (code) explorer MSN Skype Thunderbird Textpad Home ----- Left: Firefox explorer Photoshop (main window) Winamp (shaded) Right: MSN Skype Photoshop (tools) Adobe Bridge Textpad Thunderbird Not terribly exciting, but works well. All managed and accessorised with Ultramon and ActualTitleButtons.
Two 17" TFTs at work linked with synergy (they're two seperate PCs) Right (main) - Various web browsers, Thunderbird, Gaim, Amarok, lots of Screen sessions, GEdit, Zend Studio, JBossIDE, OpenOffice Left - Used for reference material (business/technical specs, manuals, guides) and tailing log files, so OpenOffice, Opera and more Screen sessions Just a single 17" TFT at home
As of late I have been using my dual 19's for school. Keep MS word on the right where i can ready Use Cases and Visio open on the left so I can draw up DFD's. In addition when im not working on school projects I like to keep iTunes and Windows Media Player on the right side while i have firefox and AIM on the left monitor. If im screwing around with photoshop then ill use both monitors and just move differnt photo's all over the place. welcome to dual heaven =)
At work: 2 x 17" Dell* on an nVidia card; 1xD-Sub 1xDVI At home: 2 x 17" LG L1710b(U) on a 256MB nVidia 6600GT dual-DVI * unsure of exact model, currently at home All calibrated with a Grecon MacBeth profiler.
i tend to stretch my work across both monitors and 4 virtual desktops. there's no one app that's guaranteed to be in one place at one time, everything just kind of moves around to be where it's most convenient at that instant.
one monitor for msn, one for general web stuff, and one for winamp. And 3 more for just looking cool (just running 3 now, as all the monitors took up way to much deskspace. i have one on my server, though. At work i have one for a VTS client, and the other for startmenu, outlook and so on. Laptops suck... I want 3 monitors at work aswell (where i actually need it!)
